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Westview Special Studies on Africa

A Peace in Southern Africa: The Lancaster House Conference on Rhodesia, 1979

Jeffrey Davidow

In the middle of 1979 Rhodesia formed one leg of the triad of southern Africa's remaining white-ruled states. The country appeared no closer to peace and majority rule than it had at any time since Ian Smith's 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence. But by the end of that year a remarkable agreement had been forged that ended Rhodesia's rebellion and ushered in Zimbabwe's birth.

A Peace in Southern Africa details the personalities, the events, and the negotiating tactics of the Lancaster House Conference that brought peace to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. It also offers some thoughts on the possible roles of powerful third parties in resolving regional conflicts, an issue of particular relevance to the United States.

Mr. Davidow was able to observe the events surrounding the creation of Zimbabwe from a unique vantage point. A career Foreign Service officer working with southern African affairs during most of the last decade, he was in 1979 the first U.S. official to be posted in Rhodesia since the withdrawal of U.S. officials from that country in 1970. During the 1982-198S academic year, Mr. Davidow was a fellow of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

"It is superb, a rich tapestry, done with style and verve and some nice playful touches."

Benjamin Brown, Harvard University

"It is, in short, written in the best scholarly tradition of the theoretically-sensitive case study, albeit written with much more grace than such studies."

Jorge Dominguez, Harvard University

"A very clearly written, enjoyable, and. detailed account of what transpired . "

-Jeffrey Rubin, Tufts University

For Joan, Gwen, and Audrey

A Peace in Southern Africa: The Lancaster House Conference on Rhodesia, 1979

Jeffrey Davidow

Published under the auspices of the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

First published 1984 by Westview Press, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Davidow, Jeffrey.
A peace in southern Africa.
(Westview special studies on Africa)
"Published under the auspices of the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University."
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Lancaster House Conference on Rhodesia (1979) 2. ZimbabwePolitics and government1979-1980. 3. ZimbabweConstitutional history. I. Harvard University. Center for International Affairs. II. Title. III. Series.
DT962.75.D38 1984 968.91'04 83-23393
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01552-7 (hbk)

Contents

Guide

On June 7, 1979, President Carter issued a congressionally mandated report in which he stated that the conditions were not yet appropriate for the United States to lift economic sanctions against Rhodesia, which was technically still a colony in rebellion against Britain. The President's decision was not a popular one among many on Capitol Hill, where support for the Rhodesian regime of Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who had six weeks earlier replaced Ian Smith as Prime Minister, was increasing.

The Carter administration felt compelled to make several gestures to placate congressional opponents of its Rhodesia policy. The president himself would meet with Muzorewa on July 9 at Camp David, the first time an American chief executive had conferred personally with one of the contending Rhodesian nationalist leaders. Also Carter agreed to a congressional suggestion to send a U.S. diplomatic observer to Salisbury to monitor the progress of the Muzorewa regime. The United States had withdrawn all of its consular personnel from Rhodesia in 1970 in accordance with the sanctions program and had maintained no diplomatic or consular presence there since that time.

The gesture of sending an official was quickly pocketed and forgotten by the policy's critics; it would warrant little more than a footnote in even the most detailed tome exploring the Rhodesian drama. However, as the person chosen to go to Salisbury, I had a superb opportunity to watch history unfold. I was already familiar with the Rhodesian problem, having served as an officer in the U.S. embassy in South Africa from 1974 to 1976 and as the Department, of State's Rhodesian desk officer for the following years. I had spent much of 1978-1979 as a congressional fellow of the American Political Science Association working in Congress, where I had seen some of the legislative debate on Rhodesia develop. Moreover, my middling rank was suitable to the task at hand. The dispatch of a more senior foreign service officer might have been distorted by several parties as connoting quasi recognition of the Muzorewa regime, an impression the State Department was anxious to avoid.

I arrived in Rhodesia in July 1979 and remained there, with only a few weeks outside of the country, for the next three years, a period that witnessed the end of a tragic civil war, the independence of Zimbabwe, and that state's first years as a majority-ruled nation.

Salisbury offered one of the most disadvantaged perspectives for trying to understand the negotiations that played themselves out at the Lancaster House Conference on Rhodesia of September through December 1979. Diplomatic communication was sporadic, the local news censored, and the reports filtering back from the various delegations so partisan as to make objective analysis impossible. The final Lancaster House accord ending the war and providing for a transition to independence came as something of a surprise to me, like most others resident in Rhodesia. I wondered how it had actually come about, but the press of events and work did not enable me to pursue the question seriously.

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